<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I am not going to start a language war, but I think there are some very good reasons for choosing python. It gives you a lot of language integration for free. You can call C and fortran code with ease and receive the results as a python type variable. So, depending on what the final implementation looks like, this will actually do exactly what you want with a lot less work for the quantumSoft dudes.</div><div><br></div><div>Another reason for choosing python might be numpy, scipy and scientific. These three libraries basically give you an open source matlab (sans visualization... you need other packages for that). It handles arrays and complicated operations much more cleanly than current pro fit coding operations. By integrating python pro fit can take advantage of all of this without having to reinvent the wheel.<br><div><br></div><div>That said, there are good reasons for including other languages as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Apr 26, 2009, at 10:54 PM, s.g. prussin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Thank you for this. Once again, I'd like to ask that you consider the direct importing of FORTRAN code. For many in the scientific and engineering community, we still use this language and it must be so because of the very many legacy codes that are the basis of many calculations. I know it's a big request but please consider it - sgp<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2009, at 3:32 AM, pro Fit Support wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear pro Fit users</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We at QuantumSoft are presently working hard on the next version of pro Fit, which will be version 6.2. The release date of that version is still uncertain, but my guess is that it will be sometime in late 2009 or in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>2010, so don't hold your breath. It will provide a number of interesting new features.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">One of these new features will be integrated support for the Python programming language for defining Programs (Macros) and pro Fit functions, as an alternative to pro Fit's own Pascal-like compiler.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We feel that some user feedback would be valuable at this time. We therefore have decided to run an "alpha" testing program with version 6.2, with emphasis on its Python programming capabilities. So, if you have some Python knowledge, or if you are an experienced pro Fit user willing to spend some time digging into Python and testing pro Fit with it, please send us a note to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:profit@quansoft.com">profit@quansoft.com</a>,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with a brief description of who you are and why you feel you could contribute to the alpha testing. If you are accepted to the alpha testing program, we will then send you a pro Fit build to test.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please do not expect the build that we will send you to be fit for normal use. It will be an internal build that has not undergone much testing and that will have various parts unfinished or disabled. It is for testing only. It will require MacOS 10.5.6 or better.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best regards</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kurt Sutter</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">QuantumSoft</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">proFit-list mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:proFit-list@quantum-soft.com">proFit-list@quantum-soft.com</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://quantum-soft.com/mailman/listinfo/profit-list_quantum-soft.com">http://quantum-soft.com/mailman/listinfo/profit-list_quantum-soft.com</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>S.G Prussin</div><div>Department of Nuclear Engineering</div><div>University of California</div><div>Berkeley, California 94720</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:prussin@berkeley.edu">prussin@berkeley.edu</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>proFit-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:proFit-list@quantum-soft.com">proFit-list@quantum-soft.com</a><br>http://quantum-soft.com/mailman/listinfo/profit-list_quantum-soft.com<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>